Good Bye Stamps!

Can you believe we're less than 2 weeks from the release of the new catalog?!??  Whooo Hoooo!!!!!  But there are some great sets that we're loosing.  My May class on Saturday was all about the stamp sets that are leaving.  I chose 4 of my favorites.  The first one was Button Buddies!  How can this one go?  I just love it!  this card is simple and sweet!  You could make a stack of these in no time!  Also leaving is the stamp set Curly Cute!  It's one of my favorite greeting sets! 

The next set is Perfect Punches.  This set is such a great set to own.  It has images for every occasion and they coordinate with some of our most popular punches.  This card could easily be a masculine card just leave off the flowers and add some linen thread and/or our natural buttons.  Easy to switch out!  I'll have the other 2 cards from the class to share with you tomorrow!

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!!

Blog Hop-Retiring Stamp Sets

Welcome to our monthly blog hop!  If you just hopped over from Michelle's blog WELCOME!  If not make sure you hop around the loop, you'll see some amazing projects!  We are only 2 weeks away from the new catalog, I'm so super excited!!!!  I can't wait!!!!  But as it always is, with new you have to say good bye to the old.  So this month's hop we're saying good bye to our retiring stamp sets.  For my card I'm using the Forever Young set.  I actually got this set for free when I won a monthly contest offered to demonstrators (a long time ago).  However I didn't use it until my 10th anniversary class 2 months ago!  I might have used it before here and there, but 2 month's ago I fell in love with it and started using it ALL the time!  So of course it ended up on the retiring list :(  But it also means I get to share it with you today!  This card was inspired by Kimberly Van Diepen.  I love her vintage style of cards :)  I CASED this card pretty closely.  I just loved hers why change it!  :)

 

You'll notice that this does say Mother's Day, but this would be a great card for a new mom, birthday or maybe just a Wednesday :)  I added a little new product on the card!  Did you notice the Summer Starfruit rose?  I again used the new clay and molds that I LOVE!!!  Once the clay was dry I used my marker and colored the rose.  It's just that easy!  If you're interested in the clay and molds you can get them in only 2 weeks! 

So now it's time to continue on the hop.  Next up is my upline Amber.  She's is so creative and I love her style and everything she does!  I know you'll love her work too!!!!

 

Here's the rest of the blog hop line up, in case you get lost along the way. 

 

Ruth Norton YOU ARE HERE! 

Amber Wilson
Nichole Gonzales Jaramillo
Kay Jantz
Liz Kay
Camelita Wasson
Cassie Rogers
Michelle Carrion

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!

Birthday Bird

This card is so bright and fun and I just LOVE it!!!!  Don't you just LOVE LOVE that blue!  It's the new Coastal Cabana In Color!  It might just make that pain of loosing Baja Breeze heal a little quicker :)  But that's not the only new color on here, can you name 2 more????  The flower is stamped in Pistachio Pudding and the bird is Strawberry Slush.  I've used Strawberry Slush a lot-you might have picked that one out right away.  What can I say, I love all the pinks!  This one I think is the perfect blend between bright and subtle :)

This card is inspired by this card that I came across on Pintrest.  There's one more new product on this card.  Can you spot it?  It's the button!  I've become a huge button fan, but I'm also a button hoarder.  I'm really working on it though, so hopefully you'll see me use more and more buttons :)  We'll see how that goes.

Thanks for looking see you soon!   

Punchy Book Worm

The end of the school year is rapidly approaching.  Logan only has one week of school left!  YIKES!  So that means it's time for teacher gifts!  Of course I appreciate his teachers year round but I always try to give gifts at the end of the school year :)  This year it's all about the gift card :)  They're easy and when I polled my teacher friends that was the number one gift teachers want.  I saw this super cute punched creation on Pintrest, and came up with this sweet version of it.

The worm is simply done with a variety of sizes of circle punches and an oval punch for his head.  I do adore his little glasses though!  Aren't they just the cutest!!!?!?!?  To get his glasses I punched the small circle from the Itty Bitty Punch Pack, then I punched the 1/4 inch (I'm pretty positive it was the 1/4 inch--I made this a few days ago and now seem to be questioning myself--but I'm pretty sure).  Then for the sides of the glasses I just used a tiny strip of black cardstock and folded it over the edge of the circle.  Just gluing it on didn't work well but when you fold it over it works well.  the books are made with the word window punch.  The apple is, well, the apple frame lit :)  Why reinvent the wheel?

  

I added a little pocket in the inside of the card for the gift card.  Gotta love the gift cards! 

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!

Congrats Grad

You know you're getting old when the children you used to babysit for are graduating high school, though while I type this I realize that the kids I used to spend my summers babysitting are now seniors in college!  YIKES!  I guess a high school grad isn't so bad :)  This is a pretty simple card, but when made in the school colors can be a pretty striking card.  If you read my post yesterday about my crooked words you'll understand why I kept the stamp a ma jig in the drawer for this card, and would you believe it-they came out pretty straight!  Who would have ever guessed! 

There's really not much to say about this card.  For the flowers I used the little scalloped flower from the Itty Bitty Punch pack.  Before I glued them down I crumpled them up to give them a little texture.  Of course no flower is complete without a little rhinestone in the center!  There's room for a gift card to be added inside and then it's all set to go to that graduate! 

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!!

Rose For Mom

Yesterday was Mother's Day, so of course I couldn't share this card prior to Mother's Day :)  This is the card I gave to my Mom.  Over all it's a pretty simple card.  I have a love/hate relationship with my stamp a ma jig.  I have friends who love it and don't stamp without it.  Normally I don't use my stamp a ma jig, there are very few stamps that I'll dig it out for.  I thought it would be helpful with this card but as you can see my words are still crooked even with the use of the stamp a ma jig, so now you understand my love/hate relationship.  It seems that I can only make it work properly with 2 step stamps such as this one.  But when it comes to words no matter what I do, they never come out straight.  This was try number 4 and I decided it was going to have to work :)

 

Fortunately there's a lot going on with this card, so hopefully that distracts from the crooked stamping :)  The rose on top is made with the new clay and flower molds that will be in the new catalog.  I just love this clay!!!  I've made a bunch of flowers to have on hand.  You never know when you might need one on the spot!  I used my aqua painter and painted the rose first in Pink Pirouette, then once that was dry I used my aqua painter and went over it with Strawberry Slush.  Some parts are darker and shaded which I love!  Of course I had to add pearls and a doily, more of my faves!!! 

 

Thanks for looking see you soon!!!!

Birthday Roses

I love this sweet simple card.  The inspiration for this card came from this blog.  I love theses flowers, this set (Stippled Blossoms) is probably my all time favorite stamp set!  The flowers are so beautiful!  Of course I used my stamp a ma jig to line them up exactly :)  To get the splattered background I dropped a couple drops of Chocolate Chip reinker onto the lid of the Chocolate Chip pad, then took my aqua painter-make sure it's really wet--that's key.  Use your really wet aquapainter and pick up a little reinker and then holding it with one hand tap it on the other hand holding it over your card and the ink will splatter all over your card.  It's easy, quick and best of all not messy! None of the ink spots will be the same size and every time you do it, it will be different and wonderful!

Don't you just love the colors of these flowers!  They're both new In Colors.  The blue flower is Coastal Cabana (NEW) with Bermuda Bay stamped on top.  The orange flower is Crisp Cantaloupe (NEW) with Calypso Coral stamped on top.  LOVE both these flowers!  I crumpled up a doily to stick behind the flowers, it adds the perfect softness and sweetness to the card!  That's all for me today, have a wonderful weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there! 

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!!

Where Do The Hours Go?

It's been one of those weeks, you know when you just can't figure out where all the hours in the day went.  Sadly I don't have a project.  I'll be back tomorrow,  thanks for stopping by!

Mosaic Birthday

I can't tell you how much I love this years In Colors!  I'm so glad that we'll have 2 years with them, though it will be hard to say good bye to them in 2015 :)  Three of the new incolors are shown on this card.  Coastal Cabana, Pistachio Pudding and Strawberry Slush.  YUM!!!!  I kept this card clean and simple.  Crisp white on white cards are super trendy :)  The only problem with white cards is that they're often hard to photograph.  I didn't get a chance to take pictures early in the day, thanks to a little messy situation from Megan :)  So I had to wait until the afternoon when the light isn't great.  

 

This set is so fun and what's better than a fun set but having a fun punch that coordinates with that set!  I LOVE that!!!!  I'm a punch-a-holic though :)  Hate to keep it short and sweet but May is turning out to be the busiest month of the year :)  Gotta love the end of the school year!

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!

AMAZING!

Here are the rest of the projects from our Over The Top Swap on Saturday.  I tell you every month, I know I do! That the demonstrators that I work with are some of the most talented, creative people ever!  Enjoy the projects and be inspired! 

 

The first is Karen's.  Karen never ceases to amaze me.  Every month she is full of new and amazing ideas-I don't know how she does it!  For her swap we made little mirrors, there's a hook on the back to hang it, mine is already hung :)  She requested colors from us prior to the swap, so that they could coordinate with our homes, it's that so stinkin' sweet of her!!!  Mine is the Marina Mist one, my craft room and bedroom are blue so I knew whatever it was and where ever it went it would coordinate.  They all turned out beautiful though!  She punched 70 ornaments per person in each color!  Then she dyed all the flower trim ribbon for us.  She's did soooo much prep work, and goodness I can't thank her enough for that :)    We embossed, sponged and glued on all those ornaments-well not all of them I kept my extras I'll make something fun with them.  I love it and it's hanging in my craft room!!

 

Cassie's project is up next.  We stamped the pot and then made the little bird house.  I love 3-D projects but I was worried the birdhouse would be complicated.  But she had a pattern and it was super easy!  The pot was a little tricky to stamp on.  But mine came out pretty well, I do have one wonky looking bird, but he'll sit in the back :)  I'm going to try to not kill my plant.  I do not have any gardening skills.  I'm pretty sure plants come to my home to die, but I'll work hard on this one! 

Kathy's project is next.  She and I must have been on the same thought process.  She did a mason jar candle too!  Here's is so cute!!!  I love that the candle is sitting in birdseed.  How stinking cute!!!!  With the help of a glue gun this project came together quickly!  This sweet little candle is sitting in my kitchen. 

Michelle's project was so fun!!  She made a version of the box albums.  You take the lid off and the box opens up.  You can make it into an album and put picture on each square.  Michelle's box had a mini box inside so after you opened the big box there was a smaller box inside, you open that and this is what you got.  Isn't is great.  I have this on a shelf in my craft room.  It's so pretty! 

Finally to Amber's project.  Amber made liners for our clear cases.  The clear cases we'll use to hold pearls and rhinestones.  How cute!!  Amber did the liners in MDS then had them printed.  This was huge for Amber, she hasn't played with MDS as much as me :)  They came out fantastic though and I'm so proud of her for stepping outside her comfort zone and venture into MDS!  I don't think I need to tell you how these are in use in my home :) 

Thanks for looking, see you soon!!!!